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- Herausgeber: Gemma Open Door for Literacy
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
Six-year-old Teddy is not sure he is ready for a bike, but his father wants to teach him. Paco remembers when his dad taught him to ride. It gave him confidence—something Teddy could use. Then disaster strikes. The family must now face a different future than the one they hoped for. The Yellow House Stories follow daily life on Summer Street, an American neighborhood where cultures meet, challenges emerge, and people learn how to live together.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025
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Warehouse 54
ALICE SAVAGE
Alice Savage grew up in a theatrical family and began writing plays in the fifth grade. As an English teacher of adult learners, she combines creative writing with a deep awareness of language to illuminate the worlds of immigrants and cultural explorers. She credits her multicultural family as inspiration. An author on many course books for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Pearson, and others, Alice has presented widely on the role of drama in language learning. She has published several award-winning oneact plays. Her dramatic fiction shows what happens when characters address challenges for which they may or may not be prepared. Alice lives in Houston.
First published by Gemma in 2025.
www.gemmamedia.org
©2025 by Alice Savage
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
Printed in the United States of America
978-1-956476-45-3
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Savage, Alice, 1962- author.
Title: Warehouse 54 / Alice Savage.
Other titles: Warehouse fifty four
Description: Boston : Gemma, 2025. | Series: Gemma open door |
Identifiers: LCCN 2024057321 (print) | LCCN 2024057322 (ebook) | ISBN 9781956476453 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781956476460 (epub)
Subjects: LCGFT: High interest-low vocabulary books. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PS3619.A8286 W37 2025 (print) | LCC PS3619.A8286 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23/eng/20250122
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024057321
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024057322
Cover by Laura Shaw Design
Named after the brightest star in the Northern Crown, Gemma is a nonprofit organization that helps new readers acquire English language literacy skills with relevant, engaging books, eBooks, and audiobooks. Always original, never adapted, these stories introduce adults and young adults to the life-changing power of reading.
To Heiko, who sometimes works the night shift
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Fall
2. The Night Shift
3. Rashid’s Story
4. Rules
5. Pick Up
6. Mr. Careful
7. The Donut Shop
8. Busy
9. Dinner
10. The Warehouse
11. The Hospital
12. Waiting
13. Awake
14. Family
15. Home
1. Fall
Teddy and Kyle are walking home from the park. A cold wind is blowing. The two boys are hungry.
“Let’s go to my house,” says Teddy. “My mom made cookies.”
Kyle likes cookies. He does not get them very often. “Sure,” he says. “What kind?”
“Chocolate,” says Teddy.
“My favorite!”
When they arrive, Teddy’s mother, Dolores, is working in the yard. There are piles of bright yellow, orange, and red leaves. Dolores looks up when she sees the boys. She has big brown eyes like her son, Teddy. A green hat covers her long black hair.
“Don’t go in the house, Teddy,” Dolores says. “Your father is sleeping.”
“But we want cookies,” says Teddy. “We’ll be quiet. I promise.”
“Six-year-old boys can’t be quiet. It’s not possible,” says Dolores. “I know you’ll try, but your father needs to sleep.”
Kyle looks confused.
“Teddy’s dad isn’t sick,” Dolores says. “Paco sleeps in the day because he’s working at night this week.”
“He’s a manager at a chemical plant,” says Teddy.
“Does he make chemicals?” asks Kyle.
“Yes, big ones,” says Teddy.
“The chemicals aren’t big,” says Dolores. “But the plant is, and it makes things with chemicals.”
“What kinds of things?” asks Kyle.
“Big things,” says Teddy.
“Do they explode?”
“No!” Dolores laughs. “He makes sure things don’t explode!”
“Oh,” says Kyle. He is disappointed.
“Paco’s chemicals go into many things,” says Dolores.
“He puts them on train cars,” says Teddy.
“Trains? Train cars?” Kyle has more questions, but Dolores stops him.
“Look at you two! You’re shaking from cold. Can you go over to Kyle’s house?”
“I guess so,” says Kyle. “But we don’t have cookies.”
“I’ll bring cookies when I finish here,” says Dolores.
Teddy looks at his mother. He wants to stay in his own house.
“That will be great, Miss Dolores,” says Kyle. “Come on, Teddy. We can play with my trains.”
Teddy follows Kyle down the street to a yellow house under a tall tree. He stops when he sees a lot of cars.
“I forgot to do something,” says Teddy. “I need to go home.”
“No, come!” Kyle pushes Teddy up the steps.
A dark-haired man in his twenties opens the door. He is Kyle’s Syrian cousin, Rashid.
“Hi, Rashid,” says Kyle.
“Kyle and Teddy!” says Rashid. “Come in.” Suddenly, Teddy is inside the house.
Kyle’s family is sitting around a fireplace. They are drinking tea in glasses. When the boys come in, they stop talking.
“I should go home,” Teddy says.
“It’s just relatives,” says Rashid. “You know everyone here.”
It is true. Teddy knows the family. They are nice, but Teddy feels nervous. He tries to step back, but the door is behind him. Then Lucky, Kyle’s dog, jumps on Teddy. Teddy falls on Kyle’s mother. Brita’s tea spills.
“Don’t worry, Teddy,” says Brita. She gets up and cleans the tea.
Teddy looks at Kyle’s Syrian family. They all have dark hair and brown eyes. Kyle’s father Joe is sitting by the fire. Kyle’s little brother, Ethan, is in his lap. Rashid sits on the floor, and Rashid’s mother, Mona, is in a chair by the window. Teddy tries to speak, but the words do not come.
Brita is the only non-Syrian in the room. Her blue eyes and red hair make her look different. Teddy nods, but he still does not speak.
“Would you like some fruit?” Brita holds out a plate of apples and oranges.
Kyle shakes his head. “We’re not hungry.”
“Then run upstairs,” Brita says. “But take off your shoes.”
The boys put their shoes in the pile by the door. Teddy follows his friend. He likes Kyle’s room. It is long, and the bed is by a window. There is a train set on the floor. The boys make a small city with little houses and a hospital.
Suddenly, the wind blows harder. Teddy hears a loud noise, and a tree branch falls on the house. He remembers last summer. A storm blew down trees in their neighborhood. One of them fell on a neighbor’s house. She almost died.
Kyle goes to the window and looks outside. “Your mother is coming!” he says. “Cookies!”
